American-Armenian mobster Armen “Pzo” Kazarian was sentenced to 37 months in prison Friday in New York for his role in a Medicare fraud enterprise. Besides his prison term, Kazarian is to serve three years of supervised release and pay a $60,000 fine.

Kazarian, 48, was sentenced for his involvement with the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization, an Armenian-American organized crime enterprise engaged in a wide range of criminal activity, including money laundering, credit card fraud, illegal trafficking of tobacco, and even selling counterfeit Viagra pills. Even though he was facing a life term, Kazarian cut a deal with the prosecution and pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy in July 2011.

Kazarian used his status as a “Vor,” a term translated as “Thief-in-Law,”  within the criminal community to assist the Mirzoyan-Terdjanian Organization that engaged in an extensive range of criminal offenses including the operation of a $100 million Medicare fraud billing ring. As part of his involvement with the group, Kazarian engaged in extortion on the organization’s and his own behalf.

Taking into account that Kazarian is in a US prison for already close to 30 months, he will be deported in six months, but it is yet unknown where he will be deported. He was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, but he claims that he left Azerbaijan to escape the violence that was carried out there on grounds of national belonging. His mother lives in Armenia, whereas his father resides in Moscow.